Summer test ch 3 Flashcards
Term for temporary unfree labor in British colonies
Indentured servitude
After white settlers developed immunity to what disease did the life expectancy rise
Malaria
Which region had a tester balance between the sexes
New England
Term for a woman who assist other women in birth
Midwife (midwifery)
Legal principle governed rage knives of married white women
Couverture
Horrible journey made by African slaves from Africa to America
Middle passage
African from ebos (Nigeria) was seized by slave traders at 11 and sold into slavery
Olaadah equiano (gustuvas)
What English company maintained a monopoly of Africans being brought to America
Royal African company
In 1662, what English colony revised its slave codes
Virginia
17th century, dominant cash crop?
Tobacco
What food did Africans know how to cultivate (and the whites didn’t) so Africans were valuable to South Carolina
Rice
1640, what ironworks was established the first effort to establish metals in America
The Saugus ironworks
1764, what German iron master established iron woks in northern New Jersey
Peter hasenclever
In 1750, what act was passé by parliament restricting the manufactures of metal
The ion act of 1750
Thick brown syrup separated from raw sugar
Molasses
Trade pattern in Atlantic Ocean by which merchants carried rum and other goods from England to africa
Triangle trade
Group of people that share same economic or social stat
Class
Most serious black slave rebellion, 1739
Stono rebelllion
Agreement that New England tons drew up to bind all resident of the town together into a religious and social unit
Covenant
Shared pasture in the small New England towns
Common
Term for residents of New England who have undergone a conversion, who could give evidence of God’s grace
The Elcect or visible saints
Where was the outbreak of witchcraft hysteria in colonial America
Salem Massachusetts
African born into a 1700 noble family captured, became Muslim won sympathy of royal African company?
Ayuba Sulimon
